gazon

\ɡa.zɔ̃\

/\ɡa.zɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“gazon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,226. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,226
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Végétation courte de plantes herbacées.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gazon · gazon · French

gazon · rank #11,226 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,226
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH Gautier

Nearest frequency peer: Gautier (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gazon »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « gazon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gazon vs gon
60% similar
gazon vs giron
60% similar
gazon vs Guyon
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gazon
PropertyValue
Headwordgazon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡa.zɔ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#11,226
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gazon »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.gazonse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Gautier » (#11,225), « geek » (#11,227), « gaule » (#11,224). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gazon » est au #11,226. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around gazon (IPA \ɡa.zɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,226 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gazon, with forms such as "agzon", "gaozn", and "gazno". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gon", "giron", "Guyon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gazon, spelled G-A-Z-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Végétation courte de plantes herbacées.
  2. 2
    Herbe courte et fine, le plus souvent en parlant des graminées et spécialement un mélange de ray-grass anglais, de fétuques et d’agrostis.
  3. 3
    Épaisseur de la végétation, feuilles et racines, qui pouvait être soumis à l’essartage.
  4. 4
    Couverture herbeuse des chaumes.
  5. 5
    Surface couverte de cette herbe.
  6. 6
    Motte ou plaque de terre couverte d’herbe que l’on découpe à la bêche ou avec une machine et qui sert à recouvrir une surface dépourvue de végétation.
  7. 7
    Chevelure.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gazon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La noirceur de la tourbe et des basaltes est coupée par des taches d’un gazon vert et abondant qui, bien que coriace, sert cependant de nourriture à près de 200.000 moutons sauvages, venus on ne sait d’où.
  2. Notons que certaines landes soumises au pacage (…) présentent de vastes zones nues dont le gazon ras est essentiellement constitué par des Hémicryptophytes et des Chaméphytes à tige plus ou moins décombante.

Synonyms

pelouseherbelawn

This word in other languages

lawn(English)césped(Español)Gras(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agzon
  • gaozn
  • gazno
  • gazonn
  • gazzon
  • ggazon
  • gzaon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gazon - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

agzon2gaozn2gazno2gazonn1gazzon1ggazon1gzaon2
Edit distance from "gazon"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gazon"?
"gazon" is spelled G-A-Z-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡa.zɔ̃\.
What does "gazon" mean?
As a noun, "gazon" means: Végétation courte de plantes herbacées.
What words are commonly confused with "gazon"?
"gazon" is commonly confused with "gon", "giron", "Guyon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gazon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gazon" is \ɡa.zɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gazon" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gazon", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gaule#11,224files#11,220jeans#11,239Keith#11,240

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

bacon7 variantsabonné7 variantsvagin7 variantsviols7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list